The Government of Jamaica through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is advising that twenty-one (21) Jamaican students who travelled from Ukraine to Poland are scheduled to arrive in the island on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James.
This after the government, through the Ministry, secured and paid for flights for the students.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, “Our students have been through such an ordeal, we can all only imagine how they will be feeling as they return to their loved ones. The Ministry is therefore working with the relevant authorities at the Sangster International Airport to facilitate their speedy clearance through Customs and Immigration on landing.”
Johnson Smith noted that, ”Transportation arrangements from the airport in Montego Bay are also being made for those students whose families wish to utilize those services. We are trying to ensure their comfort as much as possible as this stage of their ordeal comes to an end.”
The Foreign Minister indicated that two of the students who arrived with the group in Poland will not travel to Jamaica, as they have made other arrangements. She added “I know several concerned Jamaicans have been asking about the well-being of the student who had stayed behind in Kharkiv. We are pleased to advise that she is currently making the journey to Poland from L’viv to which she travelled yesterday. We continue to pray for her safe arrival and are assured that friends of Jamaica will assist her when she reaches her agreed destination.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade wishes to remind family members that the Ministry may be contacted by email at: consular@mfaft.gov.jm or consularassist@mfaft.gov.jm, or via WhatsApp at: 876 469-4058, for information.
